L. Nauka. Leningradskoe otd. 1984. 213 p. In the history of the Great Patriotic War, one of its most heroic pages was the Battle for Leningrad. For three years, its defenders, including the civilian population, have endured enormous hardships and hardships. They defended the cradle of Great October, and then dealt a crushing blow to the Wehrmacht troops besieging the city. Nothing could break the Leningraders. Their courage and steadfastness served as an inspiring example for all Soviet people who defended the socialist Fatherland. The population of Leningrad, under the leadership of the city party organization, fighting the enemy under the conditions of the blockade, relied on the constant versatile assistance and support of the whole country, the Central Committee of the Party, the Soviet Government, and the State Defense Committee. Thanks to this, Leningrad was able not only to survive, but also to win. In the conditions of the brutal Nazi blockade, the problem of communications, through which people and industrial equipment were evacuated from Leningrad, and everything that the country sent to the city, became decisive. From September 1941 to January 1943, all this took place along the only Ladoga communication line, which became a real Road of Life for the besieged city. From the break of the blockade in January 1943 to the defeat of the Nazi troops near Leningrad in January 1944, the main communication of the besieged city was the Shlisselburg railway - Victory Road, built in 1943 on the narrow strip of land recaptured along the southern shore of Lake Ladoga. page 129 If the existence of the Ladoga communication has already been covered in the literature, 1 then the history of the Shlisselburg highway is one of the least developed problems of the Battle for Leningrad. The monograph of V. M. Kovalchuk, Doctor of Historical Sciences, senior researcher of the LOII of the USSR Academy of Sciences, is devoted to this topic. It reflects the history of the Shlisselbu ... Read more